Thursday, February 17, 2011

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The Council of Europe and the reform of the European Court of Human Rights

Dear Friends,

Hoping to welcome you to what I send you some information on the debates in the Council of Europe, which closely concern the lives of all citizens and in particular that of citizens' vulnerable.

For several years now, I have the task of representing the European Blind Union, of which I am the Second Vice-President, the Conference of international NGOs with participatory status at the Council of Europe. It is about 400 international NGOs belonging to the most 'different sectors of society' civil undertake to unite their efforts to ensure support for the founding principles of the Council of Europe (rights rights, rule of law and democracy) in the 47 member states of the Council. In recent times the discussions of the Conference of international NGOs have focused, among other things, the European Court of Human Rights, which is undergoing a reform aimed at increasing the 'effective its work. To fully understand the advantages and possible disadvantages of this reform and 'must first have in mind what the European Court of Human Rights. It is a supranational court whose founding in 1959, and 'a consequence of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Liberties' key Council of Europe. The European Court of Human Rights individui e organizzazioni possono fare appello contro gli Stati in caso di supposta violazione dei diritti umani e dopo aver esperito tutte le vie legali nazionali. Gli Stati che aderiscono alla Convenzione (in pratica tutti i paesi dell'Europa continentale meno la Bielorussia) devono conformarsi ai verdetti di questo tribunale e, fatto di grande importanza legislativa, con la recente sottoscrizione da parte dell'Unione europea della Convezione dei diritti dell'uomo anche la Corte di giustizia europea e' tenuta al rispetto delle sentenze della Corte europea dei diritti dell'uomo. "Vittima del suo stesso successo", quest'ultima ha pero' dovuto confrontarsi con un numero sempre crescente di casi (dal 8400 nel 1999 a 57000 nel 2009) con il risultato di trovarsi nel 2010 con 120000 casi in arretrato. La riforma della Corte, che ha avuto una prima fase di attuazione nel giugno 2010, ha rafforzato le capacita' del Consiglio d'Europa di far applicare i verdetti della Corte da parte degli Stati Parte, ha apportato una serie di modifiche al funzionamento interno della Corte (es. la riduzione del numero di giudici richiesto per occuparsi di quei casi definiti minori) e ai criteri di ammissibilita', che sono stati resi piu' restrittivi. Attualmente sono in discussione ulteriori proposte destinate a snellire il funzionamento della Corte, ma la Conferenza delle ONG internazionali del Consiglio d'Europa e in particolare Amnesty International, pur comprendendo la necessita' di rendere piu' efficiente il funzionamento della Corte, were activated to fight in every way a serious risk that the ongoing reform makes it impossible for individuals and organizations more 'vulnerable to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. In particular the Conference of international NGOs has resulted in a recommendation (attached in English and in French as well as' non-official translation in Italian), approving the measures proposed to reduce the number of cases before the Court, but firmly rejects the proposal to impose attorney's fees to the applicants to the European Court because this "would create an unacceptable restriction of access to the High Court for the applicants and therefore would cause an intolerable discrimination". This recommendation and 'was released from any association member of the European Blind Union and this will provide' in the coming days to send it to the Representative of the Italian Minister to participate 'in the meetings of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on the reform of the Court , as well as' the President of the Italian parliamentary delegation at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The NGO Amnesty International has launched a collection of signatures for its petition on the same subject (http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/IOR61/009/2010/en) due 28/02/2011.

Sincerely.



THE NATIONAL PRESIDENT (Prof. Thomas Daniel)

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